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4 unusual facts about carbon monoxide


Cis effect

CO, AuPPh3, 3-NO3-

In inorganic chemistry, the cis effect is defined as the labilization (making unstable) of CO ligands that are cis to other ligands.

Diffusing capacity

Carbon monoxide (CO) is tightly and rapidly bound to hemoglobin in the blood, so the partial pressure of CO in the capillaries is negligible and the second term in the denominator can be ignored.

The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter

Breaking in, they discover Melas and Kratides bound in a closed room where some charcoal has been lit to gas the two of them.


Berkeley High Jacket

The Jacket first reported that local business-owner Lakireddy Bali Reddy and his family were importing young women from India to work as sex slaves after one such woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Berkeley apartment complex.

Carbon suboxide

The substance was discovered in 1873 by Benjamin Brodie by subjecting carbon monoxide to an electric current.

Gas leak detection

Through the 19th and early 20th centuries, coal miners would bring canaries down to the tunnels with them as an early detection system against life threatening gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane.

Paulo Baldi

In 2004, he drummed on two songs for the alternative rock band Cake, "No Phone" and "Carbon Monoxide," both of which appeared on the band's fifth studio album, Pressure Chief.

Suicide Manual

He and his assistant Rie (Chisato Morishita) are sent by their superior, Keita (Hideo Sakaki), to investigate a case of group suicide in which four people poisoned themselves with carbon monoxide.

Underground mine ventilation

Underground mine ventilation provides a flow of air to the underground workings of a mine of sufficient volume to dilute and remove noxious gases (typically methane, CO).


see also

Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans

According to TIGR evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Jimmy Archer

He received a medal from the National Safety Council in 1931 after using prone pressure resuscitation to revive two truck drivers who had been overcome by carbon monoxide in the Union Stock Yards.

Koch reaction

Usage of a Ni(CO)4 catalyst with CO and water as a nucleophile is known as the Reppe carbonylation, and there are many variations on this type of metal-mediated carbonylation used in industry, particularly those used by Monsanto and the Cativa processes, which convert methanol to acetic acid using acid catalysts and carbon monoxide in the presence of metal catalysts.

Taxicabs of Hong Kong

Although LPG-powered vehicles are supposed to be relatively non-polluting, and do indeed reduce roadside pollution, a 2007 study by Polytechnic University indicated that older LPG taxis emitted at least double the amount of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons compared to diesel.

ZGB

The Ziff–Gulari–Barshad model, model in chemical physics for the catalytic oxidation of carbon monoxide